do you ever have foreign accents sometimes?

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Let me iterate uh, since like around 4 years ago since covid, I uh moved to a different school and my social life went down the toilet, apparently accents are caused by the people around apparently? Uh I don't remember when it started, but rarely (once a month week? it seemed to be more common when I was annoyed) I had a british accent, and very rarely a texan one (it's been years since I've had a texan one though.) the accent thing died down after the pandemic, like 3 or 2 years ago, with it just being every couple of months or so, the interesting thing is that I can't do a non exaggerated, realistic british or texan accent.

Whenever I spend a time in minnesota I get stuck on a bit of that accent so I can sound a little weird when I come back to colorado. So not really a foriegn accent, but certainly a different way people talk up north vs other places.

I absorb accents readily.

I was born in Canada and I speak with a German accent. My parents both have a British accent.

I used to be really good at accents but I stopped bothering

I'm good at picking them out though

I keep accidentally drifting into a weird mashup of old-lady-curse-you-to-hell and cheerful Balkan taxi driver when I’m alone. Not impressions exactly — I’m not trying to do these people — but for some reason my brain defaults to their accents, especially when I’m chatting to my cat.

Top four unintentional "inner voices" I find myself slipping into:

Sylvia Ganush from Drag Me to Hell (Lorna Raver) — the cursed gypsy grandma. Everything becomes a dramatic death sentence. “You shaaaamed meeee…”

Mrs. Karras, Father Damien’s mum from The Exorcist (played by Vasiliki Maliaros). Mostly just guilt-ridden muttering like “Daaaamien… why you do this to meeee…”

Spiro Halikiopoulos from My Family and Other Animals (1987), played by Brian Blessed. “I look after the family! Is no problem!” even if I’m just microwaving beans.

Janosz Poha from Ghostbusters II (Peter MacNicol). My inner art gallery ghost guy. “Why am I drippings with goo?” is probably the most frequent sentence in my kitchen.

Borat Sagdiyev from Da Ali G Show / Borat, by Sacha Baron Cohen. Not the offensive bits, just the vibe of “Yakshemash!” when entering a room alone like a nutter.

I genuinely have no idea why these are the ones. They’re just in there, like long-term squatters in my voice box.

I haven't posted this to upset anybody. I believe it's possibly a legit condition.

Yeah because when I used to drink alcohol and then the next day when I was hungover I used to always talk Inna different voice

It was just a natural thing that happened and then as the day wore on the accent would wear off

I think I sound like an American trapped in a Canadian's body. Especially when I pronounce the word "sorry" and hear how other Canadians pronounce it. I've been trying to pronounce it "sore-ree" and not "saw-ree" in public so I don't feel weird or get mistaken for an American, because I'm afraid people will be nasty to me. Especially these days. But no one so far has seemed to notice or care.

People have told me I speak very well, but I think that's because in both the USA and Canada people think you're Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel if you speak with a strong accent. I live in Atlantic Canada and for as long as I can remember even we have poked fun at speaking with a Scottish or Irish accent that people elsewhere have trouble understanding. SO I'm stuck between not sounding like a cringy stereotype and being an example of our culture dying, or whatever.

I heard there's actually a thing called "foreign accent syndrome", where this person went to bed with a bad headache and woke up the next day sounding like they were from a different country. I wonder if you can have that your whole life? The accent, I mean, not the headache, that would be horrible.

I got quite Liverpudlian in my youth, because of my obsession with the Beatles. But it's hardly there now.

I do a few accents sometimes just for fun. Little bits of German, Redneck, Billy Bunterese, Dick Dastardly, Cockney, Russian, Cornish, and Irish. But I can't keep it going for very long at all because it starts slipping.

I heard of people having weird accents because they had some speech issues when they were little & received a lot of speech therapy. They talk slower to focus on pronouncing the sounds more & it causes them to have an accent that does not match where they live or their ancestry. I imagine that if a speech therapy teacher has an accent some their students might pick it up some as well.

My NT sister and I don't speak with accents. Our mom speaks with an accent.

What about Stephen Hawking? What accent is that?